Leadership & Strategy
Editor’s Letter: Reflections on the Year Without a Summer
It wasn't until mid-July this year that I had ever heard the term "lava bomb" or thought about the prospect of a Category 6 hurricane. But both were in the news around the time I read about another ...
Meet CM’s Guest Editor: Karen Morris
For the Sept/Oct edition of Carrier Management, we welcome Karen Morris as a guest editor of our features about Future Trends and Emerging Risks. Morris is a strategic adviser specializing in all ...
Give Your Employees Compassion, and Their Best Work Will Come
Want the best results out of your employees? Then be nice to them. New research from Binghamton University, State University at New York finds that showing compassion to employees almost always pays ...
Compassion and Insurance
A recent visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum brought home forcefully that we live in dangerous times—times that demand new ways of being and doing. Sober, quiet, discomforted by more than ...
The Latest Launches From Nationwide, Starr Insurance and Hippo
Nationwide will debut an online insurance platform targeted toward businesses with fewer than five employees. Starr Insurance Companies said it is launching a construction-related insurance policy ...
As Work Plods Along, Motivational Tactics Can Still Produce Results
Sometimes work in the office can be less than ideal or interesting, even if it remains important. A recent posting on the Leadership Freak blog acknowledged that this circumstance can create a bad ...
InsurTechs, Mutual Insurers Gain Plenty by Joining Forces: A.M. Best
Technology-oriented insurance startups and established small mutual property/casualty insurers may find they are better off partnering than competing. Mutual P/C insurance companies continue to face ...
Fitbit Needed: John Hancock Moving Fully to Interactive Life Insurance Dependent on Devices
John Hancock, one of the oldest and largest North American life insurers, will stop underwriting traditional life insurance and instead sell only interactive policies that track fitness and health ...